Baird& Warner Sets A Youth Record

Baird & Warner has appointed Michael L. Miller, 28, as the youngest senior mortgage vice president in the real estate firm`s 134-year history, it was announced by Konrad Rother, president.

Miller has been the real estate finance group`s top producer for the last three years, including arranging $100 million in loans in 1988 and $75 million in 1987.

After joining Baird & Warner in 1984 as a loan production assistant, he was promoted to mortgage officer early in 1985 and to vice president in late 1986.

Miller is a graduate from the Honors College of the University of Chicago and earned a masters in business administration from the university.

In another appointment at Baird & Warner, James L. Mann will head the accounting division and assume the duties of company controller with responsibility for corporate, property management and partnership accounting as well as mortgage servicing. He joined the firm in 1979 and was elected assistant vice president in 1983 and vice president in 1985.

- Ted H. Johnson, vice president in charge of the Chicago office of the Prudential Property Co., has been named a group vice president and will be relocating to the firm`s corporate headquarters in Newark, N. J.

In Chicago, Johnson was responsible for development of 2 Prudential Plaza and renovation of 1 Prudential Plaza as well as for the development, leasing and management of $3 billion of real estate throughout the Midwest.

He came to Chicago in 1982 as general manager and in 1984 was named vice president for Midwest real estate leasing and management. He was given additional responsibility for development in 1987.

Johnson began his career with the Prudential in 1971 as a real estate appraiser in the Kansas City, Mo., office. In his new assignment he will oversee the Boston, Detroit, Hawaii, Los Angeles, New York City, Ohio Valley and Phoenix area offices and projects.

- The Inland Group, Oak Brook, has promoted Sharon M. Anderson-Cox to assistant vice president. She represents the corporation in the sale of commercial and residential real estate, manages conversion of condominium and townhouse projects, maintains corporate documents and is responsible for the finance and refinance of real estate.

Inland also announced appointments in three of its subsidiary companies.

Inland Mortgage Corp. has promoted Patricia McClain from controller to treasurer, Douglas S. Gannett to assistant vice president for mortgage brokering and origination of commercial loans and Richard J. Dvorak to assistant vice president of its commercial real estate department.

- Gregory S. Vorwaller has been named vice president of Balcor Capital Markets Group, a division of Skokie-based Balcor Co., wholly owned subsidiary of Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc. He supervises the placement of equity and hybrid equity real estate investments with institutional investors.

- W. Joseph Larsen, formerly president of General Growth Management Inc., Des Moines, has joined Homart Development Co. as senior vice president, asset management. His responsibilities include shopping center operations, leasing, tenant coordination and peripheral land sales as well as office building operations. Homart is the commercial development arm of the Coldwell Banker Real Estate Group.